linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] smp_call_function_single() should be a macro on UP

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:40:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	viro@....linux.org.uk
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	avi@...ranet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smp_call_function_single() should be a macro on UP

From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:29:46 +0100

> ... or we end up with header include order problems from hell.
> E.g. on m68k this is 100% fatal - local_irq_enable() there
> wants preempt_count(), which wants task_struct fields, which
> we won't have when we are in smp.h pulled from sched.h.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

I was going to fix the sparc64/UP build fallout by
adding linux/kernel.h include to linux/smp.h but that
definitely would not handle this m68k case at all.

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